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Vapochilled Pentium 4 System At 3.3GHz

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cool-stuff dept.

SpinnerBait writes "Overclocking the Personal Computer has gotten considerably more elegant over the past few years and there is now an entire industry dedicated to it. One of the latest innovations is super cooling processors down to sub zero temperatures with standard vapor phase refrigeration, in an effort to allow clock speeds to crank far beyond manufacturer specifications. This article takes a look at the Asetek Vapochill, a Vapor Phase Refrigerated PC Case, that chilled a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 down to -7C and allows it to run stable in a workstation environment at 3.3GHz and beyond."

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  1. Just in time for halloween! by EvilStein · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Titanium" case with cool LED blinky-ness... now if they could get the thing to have a built-in fog machine, I'd be happy.

    1. Re:Just in time for halloween! by weird+mehgny · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fog machine? Just take a regular Athlon and remove the fan :)

    2. Re:Just in time for halloween! by NeoSkandranon · · Score: 3, Funny

      fog != smoke ;)

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  2. Refridgerators are for sissies by Subcarrier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone know where I could buy a cheap a gas turbine engine?

    I've always wanted to know how just far you can get with basic air cooling.

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  3. Everyone knows how to make your CPU faster... by El+Camino+SS · · Score: 5, Funny


    Just put a tiny "Type-R" sticker on it, and be done with it.

    Sheeesh.

  4. Re:Is it worth it? by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats a 33% increase. 2.8 - 3.3 is only about 2%.

    I thought they fixed that floating-point roundoff problem a long time ago.